“A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.”, Sydney Smith. That’s why we’re here. To make you feel like you have the best of the best. Furthermore, everybody loves secrets one way or the other. Scandinavian design is one of the best-kept secrets there is. That’s why we chose the best only for you! Keep reading to find out!

Neutral colors are one of this amazing and simpler design aspects. Fashion and function work so well together, that’s why neutral colors are the chosen one in Scandinavian design. To make your space feel bigger try adding a black and white photo to your decor and you’ll feel the change right away.

Simple patterns work wonders on this distinguished design. Full of simpler but well put and fashionable lines, they don’t leave room for regrets. Trade your complicated decorations for uncomplicated ones. Stripes or diamond prints are examples and this will elongate the lines present in the room making it wider than it is.

Natural is such a tiny happiness in our fast and intense life. Let it be welcomed into your home decor and let it shine through your windows. Your home will appear brighter and more spacious.

Decluttering your space is a fast and growing trend. If you have a small space this will only give your interior decor the cherry on top of the cake that it really needs. Keeping a space free of material you don’t actually need will make your room look like less of a mess.

Decoration on Scandinavian style is just like the design itself: functional and stylish. Don’t overuse blankets or pillows but the ones you use make sure they provide as much as decor as the use itself. Choose something cozy and that gives you warmth on this rainy days ahead along with your tea. A stylish trend that works wonders.

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The space is designed in minimalist Scandinavian eco aesthetics with industrial elements. The pendant lamps are absolutely gorgeous in the kitchen.

The ground floor of this three story penthouse includes an entrance hall, spacious living room, dining area, kitchen, guest bathroom and laundry area under the stairs.

The second floor houses three bedrooms (nursery, master and guest bedrooms) and a shared bathroom.

The attic houses recreation room, small home office, bar, media library, wardrobe for seasonal clothes and a shower.

“The main objective of this project is our desire to save the height of the space around the house and to expose architectural craftsmanship – structural elements of the building – such as brickwork, wooden ceiling beams and roof purlins.”, said the designer.

This living space has an industrial style that you can see in the entire room.

What an amazing project! Don’t you agree?

Certainly, you loved this scandinavian apartment in the middle of Russia. This home design has some special details, particularly, in the living areas.

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Your home is gracious, everything in your life becomes a little bit happier: that’s the example of this scandinavian design in a modern apartment. But beauty comes in many forms. These apartments, with interiors by Koj Design, are beautiful and sunny.

Each has comfortable living areas, cozy, simple bedrooms, and welcoming dining spaces that are perfect for entertaining. These lovely designs comes as no surprise, since our coverage of Koj Design has included lush contemporary bedrooms and clean, modern apartments. Step inside this dream apartment and get inspired.

A modern kitchen with inspiring frames and pendant lamps that will turn any setting into the coziest one. So comfortable and stylish!

You’ll feel immediately inspired with this colorful rug along with the modern pillows. Take a look the suspension lamp, is absolutely stunning!

Blue inspirations in this kitchen floor reminding the sea. The perfect statement for your kitchen. Don’t you agree?

Amazing bedroom decor ideas with this stunning modern scandinavian apartment.

We believe that you really feel inspired by this scandinavian design! Bring some personality into your home space with a little help of this home style.

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Today we are talking about scandinavian design. Side tables are a beautiful detail for your contemporary home so, just thinking about you, we decided to give you the best inspirations for your modern home. Discover them!

Wire Side Table is extremely different. You can choose a punchy color or a more subtle one, always having the dark wood detail on top. You can put it in your living room, in your bedroom or in another place. Just try and take the risk!

Prismatic Side Table, designed by Isamu Noguchi, is entirely a geometric piece. It’s super modern and edgy and if you’re looking for a punchy detail, it’s perfect for your home. Inspire yourself with this product and make the difference!

Link Side Table, by Giopato & Coombes, is the perfect choice if you’re looking for a colorful piece in your home. You like minimalist design and monochromatic colors, but in your living room you want a different detail. This side table is the right inspiration for you. Discover it.

Boca do Lobo designed Moma Side Table. It’s contemporary modern and our suggestion is the combination of this piece with mid-century design. Wage on these little details and the results will appear without much effort. You just have to be bold and different and we guarantee you that it will be beautiful in your home.

Carl Hansen CH008 Side Table is another suggestion. This time we focus on a different material: wood. It has a light brown color and its shapes will bring life and movement into your home. It’s a beautiful piece and sophistication will be definitely present.

IMAGE CREDITS: Design Dreams

Come Here Side Table, by Steffen Juul, is a three-legged design. One of the legs extends through the table, giving an amazing idea and optic illusion. You can choose the color and put it wherever you desire. It’s one of our top inspirations and we love it!

This Elephant Side Table is a unique piece perfect for you modern designs. You can choose whether you want light wood or black wood for your finishings. It’s very sophisticated, extremely modern and amazing for your living room. Put it beside your sofa, for example, and enjoy its uniqueness and beauty.

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Scandinavian interior design is one of our most found passions. Here at Home Design Ideas, we love everything connected to that style, so when we heard about this amazing rural hotel in southern Portugal that was not only vintage, but also boasted an incredible scandinavian vibe, we had to check it out!

Agrotourism is getting more and more trendy, and Pensão Agrícola is a beautiful hotel in Portugal lets you do it with a lot of style… Scandinavian style!

SHALL WE GO INSIDE?

Located in a small town in the historic village of Tavira and Cacela Velha in southern Portugal, the building that hosts Pensão Agrícola was built in the 1920’s and given as a wedding gift to the owner’s daughter, who had it working as a farm until 1970.

All the rooms feature a minimalist style, with white-washed with warm wood tones against the cool, slate floors. There are also wooden details all across the hotel, which make it look more rustic and authentic.

Nowadays – and after a careful restoration – the old working farm operates as a charming rural hotel. Transporting its guests to the mid 20th century, many of the decor is not only Scandinavian but also vintage, creating the perfect quaint atmosphere.

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Pensão Agrícola’s outdoor spaces follow the indoor decor sidelines and maintain a nostalgic and nordic vibe. There’s also color everywhere, and being located in a sunny village like Tavira is nothing but a big plus! Everything looks more beautiful and inviting when the sun’s out and the sea is so nearby.

Adding to the idyllic outdoor design there’s an incredible plunge pool and a small lounge area, perfect for those sunny afternoons spent by the pool.

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Ceramic design, and ceramic products, in general, are on a high when it comes to minimalist and nordic home decor. They can be simple and stylish pieces that come in all shapes and serve pretty much all purposes. So why aren’t you using it in your home decor?

VASES AND PLANTERS

What we love about ceramic vases is that they look great both on their own and with flowers in them. These minimalist black and white-dotted ceramic vases by Portuguese brand Madre, look great both on their own and as a set!

LIGHTING

You know your house needs lighting, so this is just another awesome excuse for you to add a ceramic stylish touch to your home decor. These particular pieces were designed by Mark Braun and we love them!

CUPS

Perfect for those rainy days, a ceramic cup is probably one of the most comforting pieces you can have in your kitchen. This set is once again by Madre. “Communicating through ceramics, wood, metal and kindness, madre aims to create meaningful objects“.

DISHES

Ceramic dishes are most likely the most diverse and best dishes you could have. They come in all colors, shapes and sizes and they always look great whether in a daily lunch, or a Valentine’s Day very special dinner.

DECOR AND EXTRAS

There are many other ways to include ceramics in your home design. Ceramic design and ceramic art can also come in a multitude of decor pieces. As seen above, you can use it in your bathroom to accentuate the nordic vibes. Or you can also pair it with wooden elements and create a minimalist tray to decorate your dining table.

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This week’s ‘Room of the Week’ is solely around this incredible nordic gray bedroom we found and completely fell in love with! Gray is one of the trendy colors for the year, and you’ll see how it fits right in with this design.

This stunning nordic bedroom design belongs to interior designer Gen and her Danish husband Kasper. You’ll see that what we loved the most are the dark and soothing color scheme, as well as the soft and warm textures, very characteristic of this style.

With its nickel details and a glossy black finish, this lighting design would definitely accentuate the nordic feeling of the bedroom.

Every aspect of the designer’s bedroom was thought to the detail, and that shows. Another great thing about this design is the usage of indoor plants. This year more than ever, green and other natural elements will be very trendy. Besides, scandinavian and nordic designs wouldn’t be the same without a few green leaves.

Ceramics is another element very present in the nordic style. Proof of that are these stunning white ceramics tray and embedded vases.

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COOPER GLOBE LIGHTS

Being cooper the season’s superstar metal, the globular copper lights, extremely common in Scandinavia, are the perfect accent to cheer your home decor right up!

FOLDING-STYLE WOODEN CHAIRS

IMAGE CREDITS: Alexander White

Lotta Agaton’s home is the inspiration behind this Scandinavian design trend, as seen at La Maison d’Anna G.
Leather-backed wooden chairs had to be in your wishlist! They’re rustic without looking over-worn and go beautifully with a sheepskin blanket tossed over their back.

POPS OF BLUE

IMAGE CREDITS: Boligliv.dk

That’s right that we’re already in February, however do you know which colors are poised to take center stage this year?

On the color front, we’ve blue. This Copenhagen home proves that feeling blue doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It stands out brilliantly against the black and white!

CACTI

IMAGE CREDITS: Sara Danielsson

It’s about time to give an opportunity to cacti! In a room where white and simplicity are kings, cacti bring a cheerful burst of green.
If you weren’t sure before, we hope by now that you’re excited to use them!

FEATHERS

IMAGE CREDITS: Frida Ramstedt

If feathers are extremely trendy in the States, why not spread them worldwide? In this Swedish Easter tablescape the white feather looks great with the predominant black tones.

GRAPHIC CALENDARS

IMAGE CREDITS: Nordic Leaves

Are you tired of the monotonous and itty-bitty calendars that everyone has at home? Well, here you’ve the solution! These supersized Helvetica Calendars are perfect to keep you updated every day.

GRAY WALLS

IMAGE CREDITS: Alvhem

When it comes to Scandinavian design, your room will be centered upon a stark, black and white aesthetic. However, why not use gray? Here you’ve a great alternative that also provides the same neutral tone with a new notches.

BIG PAPER LANTERNS

IMAGE CREDITS: Kristofer Johnsso

What do you think about these giant paper lanterns? Could you use them to give an ethereal feel to your kitchen?

MONOCHROME ART WORK

IMAGE CREDITS: Alvhem

This style is admired by its monochronism and minimalism, which are certainly words often talked about as home decor trends today.

SLATTED WALLS

IMAGE CREDITS: Nordic Design

At Finnish Dream Hotel, we can notice how clever are these slatted walls. Enjoy this serene and pure atmosphere!

BLACK & WHITE STRIPES

IMAGE CREDITS: Nina Holst

This classic color combination notch makes any room sophisticated and timeless! These stripes are modern, playful! How can we resist them?

The loyal Coleman standing lamp is the ideal working buddy to be near your ofﬁce couch or desk. It has a sober elegance and it’s possible to regulate its height and direction at any time. Simple and smart, this piece will last long. It’s handmade in brass with its lampshade in aluminum and with black textile cord.

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You’ll be amazed at this selection of the best scandinavian bedroom design – and this very special home design ideas will simply blow you away. Scandinavian Style emerged in the 1950s in the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland and it’s admired by its simplicity, minimalism and functionality. Click on the arrow to see some inspirations.

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The incredible open concept kitchen you’re about to see wasn’t always that lovely and that stylish. In fact, when a young couple purchased their modern Craftsman-style home in Georgetown, Texas, they knew they would need to give the dated kitchen and the adjacent living room a complete makeover.

Designer Matt Tsang helped the couple create an open kitchen that now includes an eye-catching backsplash, natural elements and mixed metals for warmth and depth.

The updated color palette includes light gray walls, a white ceiling and a beautiful tile backsplash in a soft sea-glass hue. The base of the island has a rich gray color that helps anchor the room.

“The brass knobs added a glam warmth to the space, and they work perfectly with the backsplash,” Tsang says. “Adding that detail helps the room avoid feeling flat with all those cabinets on the back wall.”

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Hanna Pendant by DelightFULL, with its structure made in brass reports to a classical ambiance that we believe would look stunning in this scandinavian modern kitchen.

A wood-look porcelain tile floor offers durability and warm tones. The tile extends into the living room, which was previously carpeted.

Tsang demolished the previous kitchen, pantry and laundry area to create a more efficient floor plan. Removing the old peninsula and pony wall allowed him to extend the kitchen to the former breakfast nook and open it more to the living room.

The updated living room’s style is transitional, with two brown leather club chairs, a gray sofa, a brass coffee table with oval frame and claw feet, and a handwoven gray area rug. “It’s such an open concept, the spaces had to really play off one another,” Tsang says. “They’re now truly the heart of the home.”

The Porto-based architecture studio Fala Atelier has taken upon themselves the task to transform a small flat nestled in a 19th century Lisbon building into what we like to call a nordic design paradise.

The apartment is located on the first floor of a late-19th-century housing block overlooking the Tagus river.

The task? Transforming this centennial apartment into a two-bedroom holiday home!

In order to remodel the layout and make the best use of the 60-square-metre floor plan, Fala Atelier started by adding a gently curved wall. Thus creating a separation between the communal areas from the more private spaces.

Five hand-painted doors, each in a different shade of blue, punctuate the curved wall, leading to the bathrooms, two bedrooms and stairwell.

Fala Atelier created a range of furniture pieces from different types of marble resting atop metal frames – including a kitchen unit, side table, shelving and chairs.

The main area with the living and dining rooms, as well as the kitchen were tiled in marble, while the bedroom floors are covered in ash plywood panels.

Why marble? “Marble is a very affordable material in Portugal and as such we used it very often against the abstract white background because it creates a very intense contrast,” said the studio co-founder Felipe Magalhães.

What we cannot forget is that before all the designing and construction work began, this small flat didn’t even have what we now consider a given: an interior bathroom! However, by adding a curve wall, the architects made way for a toilet and shower room.

By getting rid of the old outdoor bathroom, the architects reclaimed a small patio area at the back of the property. Accessible from the living area and one of the bedrooms, this outdoor space has a cement-covered floor and walls.

“The new courtyard-like space provides an exterior addition to the living room, natural but unexpected for an apartment on a second storey,” said Magalhães.

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More than any other space in our houses, our room is the sanctuary where we rest and breathe sighs of relief, which is why the understated Scandinavian design is the trend of the year! Subtle heaven-white aesthetics to appease and match with even the most demanding of tastes. Here are some home design ideas to enliven your place: